The AIDS Movie: Representing a Pandemic in Film and Television

ISBN-13: 9780789011077 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 136 str.

Kylo-Patrick R. Hart

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Examines the ways that AIDS has been represented in American movies over the past two decades, defines and proposes criteria for identifying an AIDS movie, and explores how these films shape social opinions about AIDS and gay men. Discusses several character types such as innocent victims and guilty villains and looks at the process of victim

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Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Conceptualizing the AIDS Movie and Its Study
• AIDS, Social Construction, and Media Representation
• Defining and Analyzing the AIDS Movie
• Significance of the Study
• Chapter 2. The Cinematic Tradition of Otherness Meets AIDS
• Otherness, Science Fiction, and AIDS
• Otherness, Melodrama, and AIDS
• Other Forms of Otherness and AIDS
• Chapter 3. “Us” versus “Them”: “Innocent Victims” and the Politics of Victim Blaming
• “Villains” and “Innocent Victims”
• The Process of Victim Blaming in AIDS Movies
• Chapter 4. Gay Men as “The (Primary) Other” in the AIDS Movie
• The Persistent Representational Link Between Gay Men and AIDS: Opportunities, Shortcomings, and Consequences for Gay Males
• Consequences of the Persistent Representational Link Between Gay Men and AIDS for Members of Other Social Groups
• Chapter 5. AIDS and the City (versus the Country)
• The City as Gay Utopia and AIDS Dystopia
• The Country as Balm to City-Dwelling “Deviants”
• Chapter 6. Other Ways of Representing AIDS
• The Form and Function of AIDS Characters in Non-AIDS Movies
• AIDS Metaphor Movies
• Self-Representation in AIDS Documentaries
• The (Near) Future of Representing AIDS
• Appendix A: Complete List of AIDS Movies Complied
• Appendix B: List of AIDS Movies Analyzed in This Study
• References
• Index

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Kylo-Patrick R Hart